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Lab Rats

Erica X Eisen

July 22, 2020

The quest to privatize clinical labs threatens public health.

Near and Present Anarchy

Susan Zakin

July 21, 2020

Trump’s ascension to the presidency feels like a lifetime ago. In 2016, I remember flicking around the internet, trying to make sense of how a man dismissed by New Yorkers as a buffoon had become mini-mogul of the world’s most powerful country. Reading the desperate-sounding ...

The City That Lived

Jake Bittle

July 20, 2020

Miami’s bleak future on the front line of climate change.

Storm in a Teacup

Francis Wade

July 16, 2020

On tea, colonial trade, and the origins of capitalism in India and China.

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Chaturbator

Adrian Nathan West

July 15, 2020

On two books that examine the world of purchased intimacy via the internet.

Texas Plagues

Michael King

July 13, 2020

During the pandemic, Texas Republicans have fought against expanded voting by mail.

Soldier of Fortune

Jasper Craven

July 09, 2020

The private wars of VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.

Waste Away

Lina Mounzer

July 07, 2020

Notes on Beirut’s broken sewage system.

Tear Down This Statue

Richard Kreitner

July 06, 2020

The strange career of Roger Sherman—the “Great Compromiser.”

X-Rated Men

Jeffrey Arlo Brown

July 02, 2020

Of twinks and the men who love to exploit them.

Death, Disembodied

Ann Neumann

June 30, 2020

Notes on the end of funerals.

Out for Blood

Benjamin Weil

June 25, 2020

On bids to reform blood donation policy for men who have sex with men.